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Fires Rage, Drought Intensifies in Southern Plains, Southwest

Alberto Tomas Halpern, bigbendnow.com/AP

While much of the country has been hit with flooding rain, dangerous thunderstorms and even late-season snow, just the opposite in the Southwest and Southern Plains has resulted in a decidedly different problem: extreme drought and wildfires. Extremely dry ground and vegetation, very low humidity and strong winds are...

Will Wild Winter Give Way to a Stormy Spring?

Celebrated weather prognosticator Punxsutawney Phil seems to have been reasonably accurate in his prediction of an early spring back on Feb. 2, at a time when most of the country was in the grip of a seemingly unending winter. But the stretch of more moderate weather this past month or so, especially in the eastern half...

More Dangerous Tornado Season Expected This Year

The 2011 tornado season has started quickly, with more reports of damage from storms and twisters in the past two days than there were during all of the first two months of 2010 -- a trend likely to continue well into spring. Severe weather season, as it's often referred to by meteorologists, typically peaks during May,...

US Sweats Under Early Heat Wave, But Storms Love It

(June 29) -- While tropical storm worries have, understandably, stolen the headlines lately, another significant weather story has been taking place in June: intense, widespread, early-summer heat for a large portion of the U.S. Temperatures in June have averaged four to six degrees above normal from the central and...